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is everything the title suggests: a gritty tale about three women whose surname describes the state of their troubled lives. But there’s more than melancholy at work in Coco Mellors’ new novel. The US-based writer has followed up her debut aboutwith another exploration of love, loss and conflict –this time among millennial siblings.